Bennet Bayer, Serial Plagiarizer

Sat Dec 3 17:02:54 CST 2011

Bennet Bayer is a "Security, Mobility & Collaboration (UC) Practice(s) Leader" who
does "Solutions Marketing & Development" at Avnet, Inc. (NYSE:AVT)
according to his LinkedIn profile.
The Avnet blogger page lists
him as "Director, Avnet MobilityPath security, mobility and collaboration solutions practices". His
Google profile says
his occupation is "Business Leader" and that he has "yet to fail in business...but, lots of experience!"
When told about the plagiarism, Avnet responded within one hour on a Saturday and pulled
all of his blogs. That type of fast response is refreshing to see, and we hope their
internal investigation is assisted by this page.

Unfortunately, one of his greatest skills that he appears to have a lot of experience in,
is plagiarizing other people's content and claiming it as his own.

The Plagiarism

The following tables detail blog posts from Bayer in which he took material from other
sources, made small edits to hide the fact it was plagiarized.
Not only did he sign his name to the articles, he made small edits in an attempt to
hide the plagiarism while promoting himself and his company. For example, in
his article on 'securing mobile devices', he took an entire article by Rob Lemos
from darkreading.com and made edits like the following:

Original: For those reasons, the recommendations are that, rather than ...
Bennet: For those reasons, the Avnet MobilityPath® and SecurePath® teams recommend ...

Original: "A lot of security for devices will boil down to managing the settings on the device and linking into security of the environment," Symantec's Engels says.
Bennet: A lot of security for mobile devices boils down to managing the settings on the device and linking into security of the environment.

This shows willful infringement of copyright and inexcusable plagiarism, in an attempt to promote
himself and his company.

Bennet Bayer Personal Blog

Only a couple examples were checked on his personal blog due to time constraints. However, the plagiarism appears to have been going
for around three years based on the examples below.